Acceptable Use Policies: overview

About Acceptable Use Policies Help

An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is a set of terms and conditions that a user must agree to after they log on but before they are given access to your network. You can require different groups of users to agree to one or more AUPs at different times. For example, you could have an AUP display to students every 30 days requiring them to protect your network by not revealing their password to others users, and a different AUP display to CyberCafe users each time they log on.

Whenever a AUP is displayed to a user, they must agree to the policy by ticking the Accept box. A user may need to agree to one or more AUPs before they are given access to your network. In this case, the user must accept the first AUP before the next AUP is displayed, and so on. The user will be allowed access to your network only after they have agreed to each and every policy. When the user does not accept a policy, this fact is logged and they are denied access to your network.

The RM Management Console provides a number of default AUPs you can import to get you started, or you can create or import your own AUP. You must select security groups to be associated with the AUP, and how often the policy must be displayed to the members of the group. You can create different AUPs for different groups of users, and choose different display frequencies.

To view all of the available AUPs for your establishment, from the left-hand pane, expand Acceptable Use Policies. The AUPs are listed in the left-hand pane.

When you select an AUP in the left-hand pane, a preview of the AUP text is displayed in the right-hand pane, together with a description of the policy, a list of the groups associated with this policy, and details of its display frequency.

For further information on the Acceptable Use Policies option, and all other aspects of Community Connect 4, you can search the RM Knowledge Library online.

Notes

The default AUPs supplied by RM can be found in the folder C:\Program Files\RM\Connect\AUPManager\DefaultAUPs.
An AUP needs to be enabled only if it has previously been disabled. When you create an AUP, it is enabled by default.
The AUP acceptance history for any particular user can be viewed from that user's properties. For more inofrmation on viewing user properties, see Users Help.
You can also create an AUP that the user only needs to view before proceeding. This is ideal for an IT lesson where students may need to be able to log on and access a variety of software.